Sensory Networks Expands North American Sales Force

Sensory Networks, a start-up based offering acceleration technology for network security applications, announced that security industry veterans Burt Hadlock and Greg Gavalakis have joined their US sales team. Burt Hadlock has been appointed Senior Director for North American Sales, responsible for OEM sales and channel management in North America. Hadlock previously held sales management positions at Tundra Semiconductor, Vitesse Semiconductor, and LSI Logic. Greg Gavalakis has been appointed Director for Strategic Sales, responsible for supporting...

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UTStarcom Launches New WiFi Handset

UTStarcom announced the global launch of its newest portable WiFi handset - the F3000. Measuring 85 x 43 x 22mm and weighing approximately 90g, the F3000 features a full-color, 1.8" (45.7mm) LCD screen, polyphonic ringtones, text messaging capability and talk-time of up to three hours and stand-by time of approximately 75 hours.The phone supports a range of voice protocols, including SIP, SDP, RTP/RTCP and RFC 2833/inband DTMF, and utilizes ITU...

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Cisco Introduces Integrated Branch-Office Solution

Cisco Systems introduced a branch- office solution that combines WAN Optimization, Application Acceleration and Wide-Area File Services (WAFS) capabilities. Cisco said its branch office solution combined with Cisco Application Networking Services could scale to support thousands of branch offices and up to millions of TCP connections with up to 16 Gbps performance in a fully load-balanced deployment.Cisco also introduced a network module for running WAAS software on the Cisco integrated services router (ISR), of which more than one million units...

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Cisco Debuts Four-slot CRS-1, 40 Gbps-Per-Slot Routing System

Cisco Systems introduced a compact version of its CRS-1 Carrier Routing System designed for deployment at regional Points of Presence (POPs), MSO hub locations and data center peering sites. The new platform is especially aimed at broadcast IPTV services and offers a multistage switch fabric with native multicast capabilities.The four-slot CRS-1 joins the 16-slot platform (1.2 terabits-per-second (Tbps)) and the eight-slot platform (640 Gbps), all...

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AP-AOL Video Survey Tracks US Trends

More than half (54 percent) of all U.S. Internet users have watched or downloaded a video clip or full-length program from the Web, according to a newly released AP-AOL Video survey of 1,347 online users. Some other key findings:Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of online video users would prefer to watch an ad before a video in order to watch the video for free, while 23 percent say they'd rather pay for ad-free videos. More than two-thirds (69 percent) of online video viewers say they find videos they want to watch by browsing the Web. Meanwhile,...

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Teknovus Cites GEPON FTTH Deployments in China

Teknovus announced that its GEPON chipsets are currently being used in more than 20 Chinese provinces and cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan; representing three of China's four largest municipalities. Other significant deployments include the province of Shanxi and the city of Fuzhou in the province of Fujian. Carrier wins include Beijing Netcom, Beijing Telecom, Shanghai Telecom, Wuhan Telecom, Hangzhou Telecom, Fuzhou Telecom, Shanxi Taiyuan Netcom, Shanxi Mobile, Yunnan Telecom, Guizhou Telecom and Hubei Netcom.http://www.teknovus...

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HP and Intel Launch IPTV Test Centers

HP and Intel opened two IPTV test centers to help carriers and broadband providers take advantage of the opportunities of the emerging technology. At the two facilities, located in Grenoble, France, and Richardson, Texas, the companies have created state-of-the-art working environments where carriers and broadband providers can develop and model the infrastructure they need to deliver an IPTV service. The facilities allow for performance and scalability...

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Eagle Broadband Selects Latens IPTV Conditional Access

Eagle Broadband, a supplier of IP set-top boxes and turn-key IP video services, has selected the Latens IP CAS Conditional Access solution to secure its IPTV services. Eagle will offer its subscribers more than 200 channels of secured video services that include Pay-TV, high-definition (HD), personal-video-recording (PVR), video-on-demand (VOD) and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD).http://www.latens.comhttp://www.eaglebroadband.com ...

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Vonage Reaches 2 Million Subscribers

Vonage reached the milestone of 2 million lines in service.http://www.vonage.comVonage ended Q2 2006 with over 1,853,000 total subscriber lines, an increase of 16% from the prior quarter and 119% above the year-ago level. Marketing costs per gross subscriber line addition were $239 for the second quarter 2006. The comparable amount for the year-ago quarter was $236....

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Flextronics to Acquire International DisplayWorks

Flextronics agreed to acquire International DisplayWorks, which specializes in the manufacture and design of high quality small form factor liquid crystal displays ("LCDs"), modules and assemblies for a variety of applications including cell phones, MP3 players, industrial and commercial products, and eventually digital cameras. The stock- for-stock merger has an aggregate value of approximately $300 million. Flextronics said the acquisitions augments its strategy of providing vertically integrated solutions by adding LCD design and manufacturing...

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RADCOM Offers IPTV Performance Monitoring Solution

RADCOM is introducing an end-to-end IPTV monitoring and troubleshooting solution. The company said its Omni-Q for IPTV gives operators full visibility into subscriber service requests and their propagation into IPTV network elements such as middleware. It allows them to examine the performance of Video On Demand (VOD) and other application servers. The system solution monitors network and media KPIs (key performance indicators) regarding application performance, DVB Transport stream, network transmission (jitter, delay and packet loss), service...

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Global Crossing Extends VoIP Outbound Service

Global Crossing expanded its VoIP Outbound Service in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in eight new European countries. The company also has enhanced the service to offer intra-country dialing to enterprise customers in five more European countries. In the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions, Global Crossing has extended availability of VoIP Outbound Service to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong and Singapore. In Europe, Global Crossing VoIP Outbound Service now is available in Austria, the Czech Republic,...

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NETGEAR Ships SSL VPN Concentrator for SMB

NETGEAR began shipping an SSL VPN solution for small- and mid-sized businesses under 100 users. The ProSafe SSL VPN Concentrator 25 (SSL312) provides secure access to the corporate network from any standard Web browser. The platform ensures data privacy with SSLv3 and TLSv1.0 with AES-256, cryptographic hash algorithms such as MD5 and SHA-1 and optional automatic cache cleanup after session termination to ensure privacy of data, supports 25 concurrent remote users to securely access resources using standard web browsers such as Microsoft Internet...

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